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    FAMILY PANORPIDAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A family of insects of the order Mecopteraplay

    Synonyms:

    family Panorpidae; Panorpidae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("family Panorpidae" is a kind of...):

    family ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera)

    Meronyms (members of "family Panorpidae"):

    scorpion fly (any of various mecopterous insects of the family Panorpidae of the northern hemisphere having a long beak and long antennae; males have a tail like that of a scorpion except it is not venomous)

    Holonyms ("family Panorpidae" is a member of...):

    Mecoptera; order Mecoptera (an order of carnivorous insects usually having long membranous wings and long beaklike heads with chewing mouths at the tip)

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